What’s new in Grafana v2.5

Release highlights

This is an exciting release, and we want to share some of the highlights. The release includes many fixes and enhancements to all areas of Grafana, like new Data Sources, a new and improved timepicker, user invites, panel resize handles and improved InfluxDB and OpenTSDB support.

New time range controls

A new timepicker with room for more quick ranges as well as new types of relative ranges, like Today, The day so far and This day last week. Also an improved time & calendar picker that now works correctly in UTC mode.

Elasticsearch

This release brings a fully featured query editor for Elasticsearch. You will now be able to visualize logs or any kind of data stored in Elasticserarch. The query editor allows you to build both simple and complex queries for logs or metrics.

Prometheus

Grafana 2.5 ships with a new Prometheus datasource that will allow you to query and visualize data stored in Prometheus.

Mix different data sources

In previous releases you have been able to mix different data sources on the same dashboard. In v2.5 you will be able to mix then on the same graph! You can enable this by selecting the built in -- Mixed -- data source. When selected this will allow you to specify data source on a per query basis. This will, for example, allow you to plot metrics from different Graphite servers on the same Graph or plot data from Elasticsearch alongside data from Prometheus. Mixing different data sources on the same graph works for any data source, even custom ones.

Panel Resize handles

This release adds resize handles to the the bottom right corners of panels making is easy to resize both width and height.

Breaking changes

There have been some changes to the data source plugin API. If you are using a custom plugin check that there is an update for it before you upgrade. Also the new time picker does not currently support custom quick ranges like the last one did. This will likely be added in a future release.

Changelog

For a detailed list and link to github issues for everything included in the 2.5 release please view the CHANGELOG.md file.